Title:
DNA in the water shows South African scientists where to find a rare pipefish
By:
Georgia May Nester
PhD candidate, Curtin University
&
Louw Claassens
Research Associate of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University
Published:
Rhodes University, 27 January 2023
From the article:
Keeping track of the world’s wildlife populations is fundamental to conservation efforts in the face of the continued deterioration of global biodiversity.
But some species are harder to study than others. Some aquatic species, for instance, elude detection because they are extremely rare and sparsely distributed.
One especially elusive example is the estuarine pipefish (Syngnathus watermeyeri).